I've been on a game buying spree lately, so I know my system can play games well. So when I click on the Blade Runner circle nothing happens.

When I browse to the directory and put
./start.sh
I get this:
Running Blade Runner
Starting ScummVM
/home/bill/GOG/BR/game/scummvm/scummvm_x86_64: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL2_net-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Done.

Can you check whether this solution works for you? Source: https://www.gog.com/forum/blade_runner/error_with_library_libsdl2_net20so0_on_ubuntu_1804

That works. Thanks.

I had the same problem on Ubuntu 20.04. After installing libsdl2-net-2.0-0, I now get

/home/tilman/GOG Games/Blade Runner/game/scummvm/scummvm_x86_64: error while loading shared libraries: libsndio.so.6.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Can only find libsndio7.0 in the repo, and that doesn't seem to help. The internets didn't help, either. Anybody got any ideas?

Please, could you try installing a latest version of ScummVM (v2.2.0) for your platform, add your GOG Blade Runner folder, using the "Add Game..." option and then launching the game with "Start". GOG already uses ScummVM to run Blade Runner, but it's a version from last year.

And as far as I know, we provide a snap package:
https://snapcraft.io/scummvm

I am not sure if this is also available on the Ubuntu Software app (it might be, since it also uses the snap installation system).

Alternatively, there is a deb package for 20.04 (Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) x86 64bit) on our Downloads page:
https://www.scummvm.org/downloads/#stable

Hey! Thanks, that worked! And i was about to try and get a refund... (apparently 20.04 is not supported) :)

Had the same issue since upgrade to 20.04. With new Scummvm it runs again. But how to use use my stored savegame? Running it from Scummvm starts game from the beginning.

[EDIT] Ok, I got the reason: New saves called 'bladerunner-win-de.xxx' old ones 'project-nov.xxx'. Renaming solved the problem!

Hi! This is how I made it work on Ulyana.

After install the game, run start.sh from terminal. If nothing happens and he asked you for libsdl2-net, install it using terminal with:

sudo apt-get install libsdl2-net-2.0-0

Run it again, if he asked you for libsndio6.1 download .deb and install it from here:

packages.debian.org/stretch/libsndio6.1

Run it again, if he asked you for libfluidsynth download .deb and install it from here:

packages.debian.org/buster/libfluidsynth1

Run it again, if he asked you for libreadline7 download .deb and install it from here:

packages.debian.org/buster/libreadline7

Run it again and play. I'm far from be a pro linux user, I do not know if that can wreck something on your pc, but it worked smoothly for me. Hope it helps!

I've tried all the solutions suggested in this post - nothing works - I'm not able to start Blade Runner on my Ubutnu 20-04.

Do I need admin permissions to run the game? I've installed it as a standard user (and tried to run it that way).

I've also installed ScummVM. But wasn't able to add the Blade Runner folder in ScummVM. Message always tell me that in that particular folder no game has been found.

You don't need admin permissions to run the game!

Can you provide some extra info on your issue?
- Which ScummVM version do have you installed?
- What folder are you pointing ScummVM at when adding the game? It should be the most external one, which contains the .MIX files.

Also could you write what are the exact error messages you are getting when trying to run Blade Runner from the GOG installation?

I was able to solve it. Thanks for your advice.

After directly selecting the data-folder with the .MIX files the game started. (I've selected the parent folder at the beginning)
(Selected /user/GOG Games/Blade Runner/game/data.

Thank you.


Using ScummVM 2.2.0 (latest release from November 2020).

Please provide more details for your case.
Like, are you on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS or a newer version? Is it Ubuntu or another Linux distribution?
Is the error message identical to the one on the first post in the thread or it differs?
Did the installation of " libsdl2-net-2.0-0" succeed?
Did the error message change after installing libsdl2-net-2.0-0?

I would also strongly recommend running Blade Runner with the newest available ScummVM version released for your Linux distribution (currently 2.7.1) -- there is even a "flatpack" package option which should --in theory-- take care of the issue of any dependencies so you wouldn't have to install them manually.

Trying to keep gog's version of scummvm running is a waste of effort. It is better to install scummvm directly (apt-get install scummvm) as sort of suggested by post 5, above. That will keep the game working across all system upgrades without further effort, as long as your distro continues to ship scummvm. Personally, I never use the gog-supplied versions of scummvm, ags, or dosbox. If you still want to use the old start.sh, you can probably just replace the version supplied with the game (ln -sf `which scummvm` game/scummvm/scummvm). As suggested in the above post, you can also just use scummvm's auto-detect and "add" the game and always start it via the scummvm start menu, or, like me, you can explicitly run using either

scummvm -g hq3x -p "/usr/local/games/scummvm/Blade Runner/game/data" bladerunner-final

or replace bladerunner-final with bladerunner. Obviously you'd have to change the path to wherever you actually stored the game, such as $HOME/GOG Games/Blade Runner/game/data.

Hi! Thanks for your input!

I'm using Heroic and I don't seem to have a data folder in there...

edit: giving the game root folder worked, thanks!